Shingle-fastening device.



.N0.s11',445. PATENTED JAN. so, 1906.

M. M. SGHULLER.

SHINGLE FASTENING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAE.6, 1905.

MARTIN M. SCHULLfER, @F CHIUAGQ, ILLINOIS.

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in, errata J Specification of Letters Patent:

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Application filed March 6, l'905.- Serial No. 248,698.

To all whom it malyconc ern:

Be it known that l, MARTIN M. SOHULLER', a citizen of the United States,residing at @hicage, iii the county of Cook and State of llli 'Fig. 1.

nois, have invented certain new and useful improvements inShingle-Fastening Devices; and i do hereby declare thdfollowing to be afull, clear, and exact descri tion of the invention, such as will enableot ers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

My invention relates to a novel construction' in a device for securingthe ends of shin gles on buildings to revent Warping or loosening ofsame, the o' ject bein to rovide a chea and eflicient device of t is caracter; and it consists in the features of construction Cpartshereinafter fully in the accompanying drawings, illustrating myinvention, Figure 1 is a fragmentary view of the gable-roof of acottagehaving its giingles fastenedby means of my fastening evices. Fig. 2 is adetail fragmentary sec tion, on an enlarged scale, on the line 2 2 ofFig. 3 is a fragmentary detail perspective .view, on an enlarged scale,illustrating the construction and manner of mounting of my fasteningdevice. i

Shingle roofs become leaky byreason of the fact that the shingles Wa sothat the corner portions of the free en s thereof extend upwardly andleave free spaces through which a high Wind easily drives the rain, and

these same free spaces also ofier means for excessively high Windsto,tear the shingles from the roof. 1 i

' My present device is designed to revent such leakage and tearing offof shing es and, furthermore, to eatly lengthen the life of the roof,and to t 's end consists of a strip A of relatively light sheet metalwhich is provided on one ed e at regular intervals with tonguesB, the eeends of which are pro- .adapte vided on their side edges with V-shapedprojections C, extending at right angles to the -%lanes of the tonguesB. The said tongues extend at substantially right angles to the, i

plane of the strip, and when the latter is socured to the roof by meansof nails D Eassmg through perforations E provided is erefor,

said tongues B will serve as a gage to determine the position of thenext row of shingles, said strip being mounted upon the middle portionof the preceding row of shingles, and said nails D passing through thelatter and into the planks supporting said shingles. As each shingle ofthe next row is secured the tongues B are forced over upon the same andthe projections O driven into. the free end portion of the same. v

My said device is very simple, cheap, and efficient. I claim as, myinvention- 1. A shingle-fastening device comprising a strip of-sheetmetal secured to the roof underneath the free ends of each row ofshingles and provided with projecting tongues bent over upon the freeend portions of said shlnshingles, and V shaped pro ections on the sideed es of said tongues at their free ends d to be driven into the freeend portions of said shingles to secure the same. In testimony whereof Ihave signed my name in presence of' two subscribing Witnesses.

MARTIN M. SOHULLER.

Witnesses: I

RUDOLPH WM. Lorz, ARTHUR C. Lorz.

